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Technicolored

Reflections on Race in the Time of TV

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Technicolored

Reflections on Race in the Time of TV

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From early sitcoms such as I Love Lucy to contemporary prime-time dramas like Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder, African Americans on television have too often been asked to portray tired stereotypes of blacks as villains, vixens, victims, and disposable minorities. In Technicolored black feminist critic Ann duCille combines cultural critique with personal reflections on growing up with the new medium of TV to examine how televisual representations of African Americans have changed over the last sixty years. Whether explaining how watching Shirley Temple led her to question her own self-worth or how televisual representation functions as a form of racial profiling, duCille traces the real-life social and political repercussions of the portrayal and presence of African Americans on television. Neither a conventional memoir nor a traditional media study, Technicolored offers one lifelong television watcher's careful, personal, and timely analysis of how television continues to shape notions of race in the American imagination.

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Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2018
ISBN
9781478002215
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
African American Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction. Black and White and Technicolored: Channeling the TV Life
  5. Chapter 1. What’s in a Game? Quiz Shows and the “Prism of Race”
  6. Chapter 2. “Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear”: Stigmatic Blackness and the Rise of Technicolored TV
  7. Chapter 3. The Shirley Temple of My Familiar: Take Two
  8. Chapter 4. Interracial Loving: Sexlessness in the Suburbs of the 1960s
  9. Chapter 5. “A Credit to My Race”: Acting Black and Black Acting from Julia to Scandal
  10. Chapter 6. A Clear and Present Absence: Perry Mason and the Case of the Missing “Minorities”
  11. Chapter 7. “Soaploitation”: Getting Away with Murder in Prime Time
  12. Chapter 8. The Punch and Judge Judy Shows: Really Real TV and the Dangers of a Day in Court
  13. Chapter 9. The Autumn of His Discontent: Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, and the Politics of Palatability
  14. Chapter 10. The “Thug Default”: Why Racial Representation Still Matters
  15. Epilogue. Final Spin: “That’s Not My Food”
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index